Word: pilote
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...officer at the Air Safety Center, charged with keeping track of the Western planes, complained bitterly : "You move around so fast I can't keep my records straight." Airlift Commander Major General William Tunner got a breezy example of his men in action. When he asked one airlift pilot at Tempelhof for a ride back to his headquarters at Wiesbaden, the pilot glanced at the general's regulation pilot's jacket which hid his rank and shouted: "You'll have to shake your tail and get aboard. We're in a hurry...
...Happy Few Physical Cultist Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden, 80, who keeps the public posted on his sustained "Adam Power," took his annual physical for renewal of his airplane pilot's license. Marveled the doctor...
Autos. For the second time in a year, Buffalo's Playboy Motor Car Corp. hopefully offered a stock issue, for the second time sadly withdrew it. Reason: no sale. At week's end, Playboy, which never got beyond pilot-model production of the small car it had hoped to sell for $1,000, filed to reorganize under the Bankruptcy...
Back from the wars, Chuck married Glennis in Hamlin. As a shot-down man, he just about had his choice of jobs in the Air Force. He tried instructing for a while, but found it dull. Then he got to Wright Field as a flight test pilot. After watching him do the most exacting tests (like landing jet fighters "hard"), Colonel Boyd gave him the X-1 project, which all ambitious test pilots wanted. "Chuck is always cool," says Colonel Boyd. "He never gets excited, and he flies like part of the airplane...
...tell her that the flight was "like all the rest of them." After a while, Chuck Yeager's friends hope, the Old Man will transfer him to some other Air Force job where promotion steps faster than the death that rides in the cockpit with every test pilot. From that day, others, to whom Chuck Yeager has pointed the way, will carry on with flight beyond the sonic wall...